Background history:

"Lillian's Vapor Trail" is a semi-evergreen diploid introduced in 2011 by Fred Manning. Fred's hybridizing takes place at the Daylily Place in Lillian, Alabama. Fred is an active member of ATP whose username is "Spunky1".

Fred Manning's Daylily Place website:
http://www.daylilyplace.net/

You can read more about Fred's daylilies on this thread:
The thread "And the WINNER is......." in Daylilies forum

This cultivar can be found in the ATP Plant Database:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lillian's Vapor Trail')

According to the ATP database, this tall cultivar boasts 12" Unusual Form Crispate blooms. It is a mid-season bloomer and re-bloomer. It is listed as showing rust resistance and is pollen fertile.






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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lillian's Vapor Trail')

@Spunky1 - Fred, was this cultivar of yours registered in 2011 or 2012?

It is absolutely flawless from all the photos I've seen of it!

I love love love LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL! It was a bit of a slow starter for me in the beginning, but for the past two years it has given me the most incredible flowers! And each bloom has such character -- it's a winner for sure! The blooms are a little more cream colored than white here in Bakersfield, and I just love the way the petals have that crinkled effect.

Lillian's Vapor Trail (Manning, 2011)
height 38in (96cm), bloom 12in (30cm), season M, Rebloom, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, 18 buds, 4 branches, Unusual Form Crispate, Near white over a large green throat. (Lillian's Thin Ice × Lavender Butterfly)

It was registered in 2011 and released in 2012, although It increases well I still have a waiting list, it has sold out every year since 2012. Great parent and outstanding show flower.
Seedlings From LVT

I love this DL! I haven't charted the number of blooms but I can tell you they are always beautiful! it grows well.

Lillian's Vapor Trail is in it's second year here. It has done so well that I've designated it my 'benchmark' daylily - one the others should be aspiring to match in performance.

The first year it didn't reach the registered height and the scapes weren't always strong enough to support multiple blooms, but both height and scape strength were perfect this year. It had instant rebloom both years. I don't count buds because 1: I don't know when to do it and it's only successful buds that count to me and all my daylilies have some bud abortion and 2: I'm much more interested in the length of the bloom time. Last year, including the rebloom scapes, it began blooming on May 22 and the last bloom was was on June 29; this year it began on May 22 and lasted through June 26. I know it actually had more blooms this year and I might have had a longer bloom season but hail removed two scapes, including a rebloom scape. I grow my daylilies in containers and I'm not sure how that may affect the stats. Maybe next year I'll add a grower's report. Right now it's the pack leader among the daylilies.

A note: I think it will set viable pods. I had two growing this year, but I accidentally removed one scape when I was cleaning up old foliage and spent scapes; grasshoppers or something ate the other pod. Both pods used the same pollen parent, but, for me, LVT also starts opening the buds at dusk and they were open enough that I deposited the pollen then and didn't wait until the morning when it was fully open. The pod I broke off certainly was making seeds, but they were too immature to keep. Too bad, but all the dip pods this year were using LVT pollen. I didn't use anything else.

Great reports, everyone! Thank you!

Fred - Thanks for adding your info, too! Always wonderful to hear directly from the hybridizer!

BTW - Those seedling (child) blooms are stunning! I am in love with that first one! So pretty!!!

Me too!!!

Thanks for the kind words. I have heard several people say they have set seed on LVT, but I never have and I try every year. All the seedlings from it are very pod fertile for me.

I love this daylily. I have only had it for 2 summers but the first summer I got it, it bloomed. Scapes have been a bit short but I think once the plant has been established for a few years that should change. Seems like it takes 3 years year for plants to really take off. I did have increase in it the first year I obtained it. I haven't been able to set any pods on it but pollen is extremely fertile for me.

I guess this one is going to be nudged higher on my wish-list

I love these threads!! So much great info when one is trying to decide which DL's to buy!!


everybody!



Mayo

I love this daylily because the blossoms are so huge. However this year was not kind to it. For me it is an early bloomer and that was when we had a very rainy cool weather. Then it got very warm but that time this plant was done. The blossoms were beat to death by the rain. It only had three scapes and 18 blossoms looking at the dead scapes. But I know it has been much better in past years. But at least this daylily did NOT burst as several other of my daylilies this year did.

I planted LVP in May 2022. I got no bloom this summer but in October, it was 3 fans, with no visible rust, although other plants near it were covered.